Keys to the Future
Most people aspire to own their own home. Homeownership offers the promise of a stable foundation, settling down in a community, having children, and getting married.
However, becoming a homeowner has become harder since the start of the century. House prices have risen faster than incomes, people have struggled to save, and mortgage rules have restricted who can borrow. Rates of homeownership steadily declined after the 2008 financial crisis and have failed to recover. This has left many potential first-time buyers feeling trapped. Those who lack affluent, homeowning parents are increasingly left behind, while others find themselves dependent on the “bank of mum and dad”.
In this report, Palma Oxley examines changes in homeownership rates, explores the barriers to getting onto the property ladder, and proposes solutions to help aspiring first-time buyers and future generations own a home.
Just Values
19 October 2026
In this report, senior researcher Marcus Johns demonstrates how the current regulatory framework fails to prevent harms in our value chains and the costs these harms impose. He also explores the potential costs of taking action to prevent such harms, using proposals for Business, Human Rights and Environment-style legislation as a basis for considering how legal duties could be placed on UK companies to prevent human rights and environmental abuses.
Just Values International relations / Economy
Growth
13 October 2026
In this collection, a group of authors from across a vast swathe of the left and centre put forward their proposals to set Britain back on track. Featuring a foreword from the growth minister, Dan Tomlinson, the essays consider the different shapes our economy could take and set out policy agendas spanning tax reform, transport, trade and more.
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Homage to Kramatorsk
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High Stakes
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Green Room
10 October 2026
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